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The Dictionary of American Regional English - English
URL: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

The ongoing project that ''seeks to document the varieties of English that are <B>not</B> found everywhere in the United States - those words, pronunciations, and phrases that vary from one region to another, that we learn at home rather than at school, or that are part of our oral rather than our written culture.''

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Phonological Atlas of North America - English
URL: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html

"Created by the Telsur Project at the Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Telsur is a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada".

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American Dialect Society - English
URL: http://www.americandialect.org/

'Founded more than a century ago, the American Dialect Society still is the only scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America - and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it. '

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Community Language Collection - English
URL: http://www.uncc.edu/english/clc/

'Audio- and text-clips, graphics and full transcripts from 40 speakers of American dialects from New York to Georgia, with most from North Carolina' (birth dates 1885-1915, collected in 1979).

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Creole in the Ex-Slave Recordings - English
URL: http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/ling/online/snotes/sn53.htm

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An attempt to discover traces of an earlier Plantation Creole in the corpus of interviews with 9 African Americans born before the Civil War, recorded under the Works Project Administration scheme. A Short Note in JPCL 14:1, by David Sutcliffe of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

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